Published: 1/11/20Badge QuestBy: Jenny JohnstonCategory: The Front Line On a Saturday morning this past April, a tiny compact car pulled into the parking lot at the Gettysburg National Military Park’s visitors center. Out of the car popped four...
Published: 12/30/19The Best Civil War Books of 2019By: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The Books & Authors section of our Winter 2019 issue contains our annual roundup of the year’s best Civil War titles. As usual, we enlisted the help of a handful...
Published: 12/20/19Extra Dossier: William T. ShermanBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress William T. Sherman For the Dossier section of the Fall 2017 issue of The Civil War Monitor, we asked a panel of Civil War historians a series...
Published: 12/19/19The Drummer Boy of Our RegimentBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line The December 19, 1863, edition of Harper’s Weekly contained the following full-page illustration that highlighted a variety of scenes associated with the service of a Union drummer boy, some of...
Published: 12/14/19Eyewitness to the Battle of FredericksburgBy: William Thompson LuskCategory: The Front Line War Letters of William Thompson Lusk Union officer William Thompson Lusk The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought on December 13, 1862, resulted in a disastrous Union defeat that saw over 12,000...
Published: 12/3/19Extra Voices: GamblingBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress In the Voices section of the Winter 2019 issue of The Civil War Monitor we highlighted first-person quotes by Union and Confederate troops about the pervasiveness of...
Published: 11/22/19The Dogs of AndersonvilleBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Between April 15, 1864, and April 6, 1865, 351 Union prisoners escaped from the prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Of these, 163 were able to reach safety. The other 188...
Published: 11/16/19Word-clouding the Gettysburg AddressBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line At the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a “few appropriate remarks” to the assembled crowd. Though it lasted only a few minutes,...
Published: 11/15/19The March to the Sea BeginsBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line Library of Congress William T. Sherman On Nobember 15, 1864, Major General William T. Sherman and his army of some 60,000 men departed the city of Atlanta, which they had...
Published: 10/21/19Grant’s War Horse: CincinnatiBy: The Civil War MonitorCategory: The Front Line While Ulysses S. Grant rode a number of horses during the Civil War, he was particularly attached to one of them: Cincinnati. According to Grant’s son Frederick, Cincinnati, who came...